When Andreas Pacher scanned the names on the editorial board of a so-called predatory journal, he was surprised to find that several of his colleagues at the University of Vienna in Austria had been ...

Economic and Political Weekly is indexed on Scopus, “the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature,” which is prepared by Elsevier N V. Scopus has indexed research papers that ...

In his Patent and Trademark Law column, Rob Maier discusses the Federal Circuit's recent decision in 'BSG Tech v. Buyseasons', which found a patent directed to database functionality invalid as not ...

When databases became available for the personal computer in the mid-1980s, they quickly gained a mystique as the ultimate productivity applications. Despite their widespread use, in some ways they ...

Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, ...